The Five W's
Follow-up Notes to HSC's Unschooling Symposium, October 2013

The five W's

Who

What

Where

When

Why

Rudyard Kipling:

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

That part of a longer poem has been used out of context for over a hundred years. The full poem is below, and is associated with "The Elephant's Child."
It was first published in 1900, and was part of the collection Just So Stories, in 1902. This scan is from a 1912 edition.

It is said to refer to his daughter, Josephine, who was born December 29, 1892, in Vermont, so she might have been seven when the poem was written.
The best intro to unschooling ever, an e-mail series created by Pam Laricchia, free, arrives in order one every three or four days for a few weeks:

Why "screentime" is a problem (and why the word should not be used, unless one also uses "cloth time," paper time" and "door stuff"): Screentime

from a blog called Raising Miro on the Road of Life, 24 Core Questions for Self-Directed Learners- ANSWERED
It's a set of responses to 5-W questions they found on yet another blog. :-) Their "Why?" is only lightly answered, because (inefficiently), the original set contained the question "What are my goals?" (which strikes me as the heart of "why?")